Bronies--the Musical · 4:21am Oct 14th, 2014
I am up to my eyebrows in work and have to prep a talk on Harry Potter for tomorrow (hah, hah, I've barely even started), and I'm working on a bunch of stuff. It's hard to narrow down what goodie to focus on first! But yesterday, I went to see Bronies: The Musical, and while you may be getting the "real" review later (by EG Cheese), I can't resist a few notes Cheese probably won't make.
Pictures are nabbed from this review.
"Honey, I love watching the colorful ponies! You will, too!"
The ponies appear as puppets on that stage back there, which is clearly supposed to be a television or computer screen. Sometimes it actually IS a screen, but that's how the ponies look, except when. . . .
THE PONIES.
A Dreamgirls-like girl group quartet in glittery dresses with the pony puppets. They're named White Pony, Pink Pony, Yellow Pony, and Blue Pony, neatly getting around trademark issues--and I'm SURE they cleared this with legal. This is LA we're talking about here. What happened to Applejack and Twilight Sparkle? Ah. WELL YOU MAY ASK.
Easily one of my favorite moments in the show. White Pony jumps down from the screen and gives this discouraged young artist a pep talk. She'll inspire him to create beauty and be his Muse and she'll give him her heart if he gives her his. Seriously, if you love Rarity, she comes off really well in this show. But his "what the hell is going on?" face says it all, doesn't it? I'll tell you what's going on, young man. Rarity just became Best Pony, that's what.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun, even though the plot got a bit heavy handed and cliche. I don't know if it's going anywhere big, but it did win Best Musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, and it got funded through Kickstarter to go on tour, which you can thank me for because I helped fund that. Hey, they thanked me. In the program. I'd totally forgotten and went back and looked, and sure enough, there it was. So who knows, it may be coming to a location near you. And I can totally see this being performed at a gazillion high schools, because most of the characters are teens or early twenties at most and it doesn't require a lot of complicated sets. Puppets, though, but I guess a lot of Build A Bear plushies are probably going to get repurposed.
Equestria Girls Cheese also did a review, which is Chapter Three of Cheese Sandwich Reviews Stuff.
Oh, yes, and the pony goddesses have some pretty impressive pipes on them.
¡I would so like to see this musical!
The pony Muppets kind of weird me out, but "Friendship is Magic meets Avenue Q" is certainly an intriguing premise. I may need to see this.